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FRUIT FLY: Behind the Scenes

Posted June 13, 2008 by mediafund in Guest Filmmaker Blog

hp_boombox.jpg Guest blogger Chihiro Wimbush writes about lights! camera! action! on the set of the upcoming FRUIT FLY: THE MUSICAL by filmmaker H.P. Mendoza.
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AMONG B-BOYS: Busy as a B-Boy

Posted May 18, 2008 by Christopher Woon in Among B-Boys, Guest Filmmaker Blog

I've been alerted by my all so loyal blogging fans that I've been slacking in my duties, and to that I apologize. So some of the stuff going on in the world of Among B-Boys and Christopher Woon. I've been finishing a video for a client (OASES 25th Anniversary celebration tonight!) and been chasing that funding paper trail. I'm also set to join a team promoting the ever so entertaining B-Boy Hella Hung, and projects revolving Hung that are in development.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: There Can Only Be One

Posted May 6, 2008 by chriswong in Whatever It Takes, Guest Filmmaker Blog

Ed and Sharifea What’s more interesting in a documentary? A story about one person or many? If you capture the lives of four or five individuals, it seems like you would have an interesting mix of narrative threads to follow. But if you follow just one person around, you might not get enough action to fill out your film.
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: We got into Sundance!!!

Posted April 14, 2008 by chriswong in Whatever It Takes, Guest Filmmaker Blog

Sundance Well, kind of… I should explain. Since July 2007, WHATEVER IT TAKES has been supported by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund. Besides CAAM, Sundance has been our other major backer, providing us with not only a large grant, but also much needed creative and technical assistance.
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AMONG B-BOYS: Crashing the Festival!

Posted March 9, 2008 by Christopher Woon in Among B-Boys, Guest Filmmaker Blog

Among B-Boys is smashin' your average B-boy vids! But here's a few that might be able to compete... It's been a long time... I shouldn't have left you, without some dope films to step to! films to step to! Since it's SFIAAFF time, here's 3 B-Boy related films I want to see...
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: We Are a Family

Posted February 29, 2008 by chriswong in Whatever It Takes, Guest Filmmaker Blog

School Hallway Everyone tells you that you can’t make a film by yourself. So true. But while it’s absolutely crucial to have a wonderful camera crew and editing team, it also really helps to have an awesome film organization (or two) backing you up. For this project, we have had amazing support from CAAM, and I want to spend some time bragging about them… (FYI, CAAM did not put me up to this; this is completely my own doing.)
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: The Man and the Mission

Posted February 22, 2008 by chriswong in Whatever It Takes, Guest Filmmaker Blog

Principal Edward Tom For those of you who have been keeping track of this blog about my film “Whatever It Takes”, let me first apologize for being a bad, bad blogger these past four weeks. I do have a decent excuse, though, because I was incredibly busy planning some fundraising events in three different cities. As someone who has never done this before, let’s just say that it was (and continues to be) a mighty difficult undertaking.
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AMONG B-BOYS: Building Community

Posted February 21, 2008 by Christopher Woon in Among B-Boys, Guest Filmmaker Blog

ab3.jpg With documentary or even anthropological research, sometimes you hear about being an “objective”, fly on the wall… or I guess it also reaches into journalism ethics (so I’ve heard/assume). Don’t disturb the natives! They say. That’s not me, I stir sh… stuff up! I had been reflecting for a little bit today and thought [...]
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AMONG B-BOYS: Return of the B-Boy Episode III

Posted January 30, 2008 by Christopher Woon in Among B-Boys, Guest Filmmaker Blog

B-Boy Sukie gets a follow up interview B-Boy Sukie gets a follow up interview It seems that the beginnings of my filmmaking/multimedia production career are thus based on gut feelings. And I am constantly riding through so many feelings that sometimes it’s like I have the biggest gut in the world. I’m talking Jabba the Hutt big. Lately my gut feeling’s been a [...]
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AMONG B-BOYS: Bringin’ in the New Year part 2

Posted January 7, 2008 by Christopher Woon in Among B-Boys, Guest Filmmaker Blog

Scanning the Hmong New Years festivities with B-Boys Geo and Suki Scanning the Hmong New Years festivities with B-Boys Geo and Suki 12-30-2007 Whatdya know? No rain! One thing didn’t go wrong. Sometimes I want to kick that Murphey in the (behind). You feel me? or as the kids I used to work with would say, yadidi.. okay I won’t go there. So those 99 problems I was [...]
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